New York Governor David Paterson delivered 6,709 vetoes -- a stack of paper 31 inches high -- to absent lawmakers, trimming $805.3 million of spending that still doesn’t close the state’s $9.2 billion deficit.

With its Senate adjourned, the nation’s third-biggest state by population has a spending plan without enough revenue to pay for it. The Senate didn’t act on a $1 billion revenue bill passed by the Assembly, and neither chamber planned for the chance that about $1 billion of federal Medicaid assistance wouldn’t arrive. The U.S. Senate blocked the money.